News and Comment

Together for Short Lives, Contact, Scope and other organisations representing disabled children and their families have today published an open letter to the Conservative Party Leadership candidates calling for urgent action to address the mounting hardship facing families caring for...

Discussing children’s palliative care and end of life care of children is always a difficult subject, as it is a specialist area which most people both never have to experience and instinctively shy away from. Understandably, for those not close...

"Many of the families we support don't get a break from 24/7 caring" Sophie has been a nurse for 12 years and always knew she wanted to work in children's palliative care. Hear from her in her own words about...

This morning, Together for Short Lives and bereaved parents Claire, Natalie and Kev officially handed over an open letter to 10 Downing Street, urging the government to finally end the postcode lottery of 24/7 end of life care for seriously...

After a three year gap, it’s brilliant to be back in the saddle with our national conference, being held in September at the Hilton Hotel in Manchester. It’s always such an amazing gathering of nurses, doctors, social care professionals and...

Chelsea and England midfielder, Mason Mount, launched a very special MOUNTchandise pop-up shop in Central London this weekend (Saturday 2 July – Sunday 3 July), in support of children’s charity, Together for Short Lives. MOUNTchandise was a unique pop-up shop...